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Japan-inspired 'water-house' slashes energy needsAs UN climate negotiators gather in Geneva this week, one Japan-inspired Hungarian inventor believes he has found a revolutionary and inexpensive way to construct buildings that could slash humanity's energy needs.http://phys.org/news342698356.html
TechnologyMon, 09 Feb 2015 09:59:25 ESTnews342698356Muggy cities will feel future heat even moreSeveral Australian cities, such as Adelaide and Perth, have greeted 2015 with scorching weather as summer hits its stride – the kind of conditions that leave us crying out for an air conditioner, rather than dreaming of barbeques and beach trips.http://phys.org/news339756336.html
EarthTue, 06 Jan 2015 10:00:02 ESTnews339756336Finding rice traits that tackle climate-change challengesPeople around the world depend on food crops adapted to an array of temperature and precipitation regimes, but those conditions are in flux because of global climate change. So scientists want to identify plant traits that could be used to develop food-crop cultivars that thrive despite—or perhaps because of—shifts in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, water availability, and air temperature.http://phys.org/news337499735.html
BiologyThu, 11 Dec 2014 06:50:01 ESTnews337499735'Ditch the 2C warming goal': Researchers suggest society is striving for a misleading, unattainable climate goalAs climate instability increases across the planet, limiting global surface air temperature increase above pre-industrial levels to an average of 2° C (3.6° F) has become a popular metric for success in the public eye.http://phys.org/news331447907.html
EarthThu, 02 Oct 2014 05:55:14 ESTnews331447907Changing temperature powers sensors in hard-to-reach placesA centuries-old clock built for a king is the inspiration for a group of computer scientists and electrical engineers who hope to harvest power from the air.http://phys.org/news328969095.html
TechnologyWed, 03 Sep 2014 13:18:24 ESTnews328969095Central Valley sees big drop in wintertime fog needed for fruit and nut cropsCalifornia's winter tule fog—hated by drivers, but needed by fruit and nut trees—has declined dramatically over the past three decades, raising a red flag for the state's multibillion dollar agricultural industry, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.http://phys.org/news319815260.html
EarthTue, 20 May 2014 14:34:32 ESTnews319815260Excess heat from air conditioners causes higher nighttime temperatures(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Arizona State University has found that releasing excess heat from air conditioners running during the night resulted in higher outside temperatures, worsening the urban heat island effect and increasing cooling demands. http://phys.org/news319353385.html
EarthThu, 15 May 2014 06:16:39 ESTnews319353385NASA sees system 90E moving toward southwestern MexicoA tropical low pressure area known as System 90E is located a couple of hundred miles southwest of Zihuatenejo, Mexico today and was seen by NASA's Terra satellite on its way to a landfall.http://phys.org/news318774844.html
EarthThu, 08 May 2014 13:34:21 ESTnews318774844Study shows air temperature influenced African glacial movementsChanges in air temperature, not precipitation, drove the expansion and contraction of glaciers in Africa's Rwenzori Mountains at the height of the last ice age, according to a Dartmouth-led study funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation.http://phys.org/news316879521.html
EarthWed, 16 Apr 2014 15:05:34 ESTnews316879521Study suggests global warming causing changes to the pitch of frog calls in Puerto Rico(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers has published a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, describing field studies conducted by lead Peter Narins and others. He and colleagues have found that the pitch of male coqui frog calls in Puerto Rico has changed over the twenty two year period between 1984 and 2006, which appears to correlate with the amount of air temperature increase the frogs have been exposed to due to global warming.http://phys.org/news316263665.html
BiologyWed, 09 Apr 2014 12:20:01 ESTnews316263665Arctic lakes show climate on thin ice(Phys.org) —Ice in northern Alaska's lakes during winter months is on the decline. Twenty years of satellite radar imagery show how changes in our climate are affecting high-latitude environments.http://phys.org/news310634171.html
EarthMon, 03 Feb 2014 07:16:33 ESTnews310634171How heat can make your body melt from the inside outJust as Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 identified a temperature at which paper self-combusts, the Australian Open has just shown the world that there is a temperature at which tennis players start to hallucinate about Snoopy.http://phys.org/news309077979.html
EarthThu, 16 Jan 2014 07:30:05 ESTnews309077979Bees work together to keep cluster coolResearch published today in the Royal Society journal Interface has shed some light on how swarming bees stay warm in the cold and avoid getting too hot.http://phys.org/news306069976.html
BiologyThu, 12 Dec 2013 11:26:27 ESTnews306069976Apples losing their crunch to global warming: studyGlobal warming is causing apples to lose some of their crunch but is also making them sweeter, a study said Thursday.http://phys.org/news295779088.html
BiologyThu, 15 Aug 2013 09:51:39 ESTnews295779088Weather balloon takes solar cell experiment toward sun(Phys.org) —How do solar cells behave at high altitudes? Do they perform better the closer they get to the sun? Those simple questions propelled four undergraduate students from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science into high gear.http://phys.org/news290157511.html
Astronomy & SpaceTue, 11 Jun 2013 08:30:01 ESTnews290157511Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greenerScientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide "fertilization effect" has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.http://phys.org/news289215548.html
EarthFri, 31 May 2013 10:39:20 ESTnews289215548Flow of research on ice sheets helps answer climate questionsJust as ice sheets slide slowly and steadily into the ocean, researchers are returning from each trip to the Arctic and Antarctic with more data about climate change, including information that will help improve current models on how climate change will affect life on the earth, according to a Penn State geologist.http://phys.org/news280242970.html
EarthSat, 16 Feb 2013 14:10:02 ESTnews280242970Global warming less extreme than feared?Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than 2°C. New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations indicate this target may be more attainable than many experts have feared.http://phys.org/news278318279.html
EarthFri, 25 Jan 2013 06:38:07 ESTnews278318279Climate modelers see possible warmer, wetter Northeast winters by 2070A new high-resolution climate study by University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientists, the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across the Northeast United States, suggests temperatures are going to be significantly warmer in all seasons in the next 30 years, especially in winter. Also, they project that winters will be wetter, with more rain likely than snow.http://phys.org/news274532735.html
EarthWed, 12 Dec 2012 11:05:43 ESTnews274532735Are dust devils whirling around the Curiosity rover?In this latest update from the MSL team, Ashwin Vasavada, the Deputy Project Scientist, explains how Curiosity has been monitoring the winds and radiation levels in Gale Crater. Curiosity has also been looking for dust devils—the small dust storms that have been seen by other spacecraft as they whirl around Mars. While Curiosity hasn't been able to 'see' them by taking images directly, other instruments indicate dust devils may be whirling right over the rover.http://phys.org/news272534013.html
Astronomy & SpaceMon, 19 Nov 2012 07:53:47 ESTnews272534013NASA investigates the 'FaINT' side of sonic booms(Phys.org)—Sonic booms created by aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound certainly aren't known for being faint, but rather for their loud, make-you-jump startle effect for those who experience them. However, sonic booms have a quieter, fainter side, too.http://phys.org/news271326309.html
Astronomy & SpaceMon, 05 Nov 2012 08:25:31 ESTnews271326309Climate change threatens marine environment in the Baltic SeaAt the end of the 21st century, the temperature in the Baltic Sea will be higher and the salt content lower than at any time since 1850. If no action is taken to alleviate the effects of climate change, there may be major consequences for the marine environment.http://phys.org/news270118559.html
EarthMon, 22 Oct 2012 09:56:14 ESTnews270118559'Cool' idea may potentialy cut one-third in tropical data centers' energy billsNanyang Technological University (NTU) and Toshiba have developed an advanced cooling technology that will enable data centres in tropical countries to be more energy efficient, cutting energy bills by one-third.http://phys.org/news266147605.html
TechnologyThu, 06 Sep 2012 10:53:48 ESTnews266147605Atmospheric CO2 drove climate change during longest interglacialKnown as the marine isotope stage 11 (MIS 11), the interglacial period centered around 400,000 years ago was the longest and possibly the warmest interglacial in the past 0.5 million years. Because the orbital configurations, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, climate, and faunal characteristics during MIS 11 closely resemble those of the past 5,000 years, paleoclimatologists use MIS 11 as a geological analogue of the present and the near future.http://phys.org/news263666676.html
EarthWed, 08 Aug 2012 18:00:01 ESTnews263666676Hong Kong study raises alert for further increase in city's temperatureThe temperature in the inner urban areas of Hong Kong is predicted to rise by two to three Celsius degree in 30 years' time, according to the latest scientific study by researchers at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).http://phys.org/news263032848.html
EarthWed, 01 Aug 2012 09:40:53 ESTnews263032848North-East Passage soon free from ice again?The North-East Passage, the sea route along the North coast of Russia, is expected to be free of ice early again this summer. The forecast was made by sea ice physicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association based on a series of measurement flights over the Laptev Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. Amongst experts the shelf sea is known as an "ice factory" of Arctic sea ice. At the end of last winter the researchers discovered large areas of thin ice not being thick enough to withstand the summer melt.http://phys.org/news258803716.html
EarthWed, 13 Jun 2012 10:55:27 ESTnews258803716A new insight into horse fluThe management of influenza outbreaks in horses will directly benefit from research by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney.http://phys.org/news254475227.html
BiologyTue, 24 Apr 2012 08:33:53 ESTnews254475227Phenology gardens track ties between weather, nature How strange has this spring been?http://phys.org/news254136985.html
BiologyFri, 20 Apr 2012 10:50:02 ESTnews254136985Is rainfall a greater threat to China's agriculture than warming?New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found that while maize is sensitive to warming increases in temperature from 1980 onwards correlated with both higher and lower yields of rice and wheat.http://phys.org/news252755794.html
EarthWed, 04 Apr 2012 10:57:48 ESTnews252755794Global warming could kill off snails(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change models must be reworked in a bid to save some of the world&#146;s smallest and slimiest creatures from extinction, a Flinders University PhD candidate warns.http://phys.org/news247815863.html
BiologyTue, 07 Feb 2012 05:44:30 ESTnews247815863